Category Archives: Blog

Back from Baltimore, and Thinking About Large DNA Fragments

Many thanks to the ASHG attendees who visited us at the Sage Science booth or stopped by our poster! ASHG 2015 was terrific, and the Sage team had a blast reconnecting with scientists and customers. Naturally, in a meeting of … more »

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For MicroRNA Discovery, Pippin Prep Delivers Highest Yield and Specificity

In a highly accessed paper in BMC Medical Genomics, scientists from McGill University and EMBL tested several steps to find the most robust pipeline for discovering small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) that might be useful as biomarkers. As part of this … more »

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ASHG 2015: Mega-Scale Genomics in the Inner Harbor

We’re packing our bags for Baltimore, land of crab cakes and this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. With some 6,500 scientists expected to attend, the conference is one of the largest in the field — … more »

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Podcast: Cornell’s Chris Mason on Sequencing, Subways, and Outer Space

If you’re looking for out-there ideas in genomics, there’s no better place to start than with Chris Mason’s lab at Weill Cornell Medical College. We were delighted that Mason was featured in the latest podcast from Mendelspod and its host … more »

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Churning Out New Microbial Genome Sequences

PacBio users have been regularly serving up new microbial genome assemblies, and we’re glad to see that they’re using our BluePippin automated DNA size selection instrument to get the best results. These are just some of the genome announcements published … more »

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Scientists Optimize Mate-Pair Sequencing with SageELF

In a Biotechniques paper this month, scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre describe a new method for mate-pair sequencing that saves time and money while decreasing the amount of input DNA required. The method is based on SageELF, which automatically … more »

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Hybrid Single-Molecule Approach Produces Highly Contiguous Diploid Human Genome Assembly

A team of scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and other institutions published the first analysis of a diploid human genome produced by combining … more »

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Festival of Genomics: A New Breed of Conference Kicks Off

Last week we attended the first-ever Festival of Genomics, a new series of meetings taking place in Boston, San Mateo, and London. This conference was held in Boston’s biggest convention center, and featured a music festival kind of approach, with … more »

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Sequencing Podcast: Better DNA Extraction Needed for Large-Fragment Libraries

If you haven’t listened yet to the Mendelspod interview with Bobby Sebra from the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai, we can’t recommend it highly enough. And that’s not because we happen to be sponsoring this … more »

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Learning About Long Reads: The PacBio User Group Meeting

This week we’re traveling to Baltimore for the annual east coast user group meeting for Pacific Biosciences customers. We’re a sponsor of the event and look forward to the great scientific presentations these meetings have become known for. Click here … more »

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